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Learning a language--any language--involves a process wherein you learn to rely less and less on instruction and more increasingly on the aspects of the language you've mastered. Whether you're learning French, Java, or C, at some point you'll set aside the tutorial and attempt to converse on your own. It's not necessary to know every subtle facet of French in order to speak it well, especially if there's a good dictionary available. Likewise, C programmers don't need to memorize every detail of C in order to write good programs. What they need instead is a reliable, comprehensive reference that they can keep nearby. C in a Nutshell is that reference.

This long-awaited book is a complete reference to the C programming language and C runtime library. Its purpose is to serve as a convenient, reliable companion in your day-to-day work as a C programmer. C in a Nutshell covers virtually everything you need to program in C, describing all the elements of the language and illustrating their use with numerous examples.

The book is divided into three distinct parts. The first part is a fast-paced description, reminiscent of the classic Kernighan & Ritchie text on which many C programmers cut their teeth. It focuses specifically on the C language and preprocessor directives, including extensions introduced to the ANSI standard in 1999. These topics and others are covered:

Numeric constants

Implicit and explicit type conversions

Expressions and operators

Functions

Fixed-length and variable-length arrays

Pointers

Dynamic memory management

Input and output

The second part of the book is a comprehensive reference to the C runtime library; it includes an overview of the contents of the standard headers and a description of each standard library function. Part III provides the necessary knowledge of the C programmer's basic tools: the compiler, the make utility, and the debugger. The tools described here are those in the GNU software collection.

C in a Nutshell is the perfect companion to K&R, and destined to be the most reached-for reference on your desk.

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About the Author

Peter is a seminar leader and key course developer, teaching courses to thousands of software developers for Unix and Windows systems. As the chief developer and cofounder of the IT company Authensis AG in Germany, he has gained extensive experience in software development for computer telephony. Peter is also the author of several other books on software development in C/C++, most of them as co-author with Ulla Kirch-Prinz, including O'Reilly's "C Pocket Reference".

Tony Crawford is a technical-writer and freelance translator with a strong C background based just outside Berlin, Germany. In addition to regular software localization projects, he has translated books on network administration and ATM. A US native, Tony completed undergraduate work at Occidental College, Los Angeles; Universit de Perpignan, France; and Technische Universit t, Berlin. Tony translates from German into English.

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I had a years long on-off relationship with C, and - in order to spare myself some time while re-learning details when going from 'off' to 'on' state - I started writing a C reference-like notebook for my own usage. Somewhere in the middle of that writing process, while my writer's inspiration was at it's peak, I purchased this book and after two minutes of skipping through it's pages I just tossed my own reference notes in the trash.

If there's one thing I would change with this book it is that I would like there is a hardcover version; because once you develop obsessive-compulsive disorder of taking this book everywhere with you it would surely help if it was of maximal physical durability.

I bought this because of it's section on GCC and GDB. The book is an excellent reference. The examples (for everything) are good and to the point. The examples cover enough to give you what you need without wasting time with setup. The book is organized in a way that makes it easy to find what you need. It's worth the money if you use C on a fairly regular basis. Again, the reference on GCC and GDB is invaluable.

Do you want to learn C? Go elsewhere. Do you want everything there is to know about C99 in one place? This is it. Very good code fragments give you examples of all of the features of this version of the language. No reference is complete without an index and this has a good one. If you write C you will use this book.

This is an excellent reference, one that I turn to almost every day. As one reviewer stated, this is not a book for those unfamiliar with C, but as a semi-experienced C programmer, I find it invaluable. I especially appreciate the little examples that it gives for many of the functions in the "Standard Library" section, they have helped me out of many a jam. I expect to be using this book for many years to come.